Securities litigation can expose companies and their leadership to significant risks. Our team defends clients in securities litigation in federal and state courts across the U.S., successfully opposing many of the most prominent plaintiffs’ securities class action firms. Our team includes veterans of the SEC Division of Enforcement, former prosecutors, and experienced trial attorneys.
We tailor our defense strategies to protect clients in an evolving regulatory environment, achieving solutions such as dismissals of class action and derivative lawsuits. Our clients include public corporations, financial institutions, individual officers and directors, underwriters, accounting firms, and investment advisers in all areas of securities litigation. We have a long track record of defending claims under Sections 10(b), 14(a), 16 and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Sections 11, 12 and 15(a) of the Securities Act of 1933. We also counsel clients on corporate governance issues, such as responding to shareholder derivative and inspection demands.
Additionally, we represent banks, mortgage companies, bond insurers, and credit rating agencies in private class actions and derivative suits alleging misrepresentation and incomplete disclosures. We collaborate closely with management and transactional counsel to position our clients for favorable outcomes when litigation arises. Our experience extends to merger challenges, post-closing disputes, deal break-up cases, and litigation involving breach of contract and business torts.
We prosecute and defend litigation related to corporate governance, valuation issues, proxy fights, board control contests, and other shareholder disputes. We counsel boards of directors and committees on conflict-of-interest transactions, internal investigations, and shareholder claims. Our team has significant experience in Delaware law and in the Delaware Court of Chancery, handling class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and claims arising from mergers and acquisitions.
Our attorneys also have extensive experience representing clients in broker-dealer and investment adviser disputes before arbitration panels of FINRA, the NYSE, and the American Arbitration Association. We handle arbitration proceedings involving claims of churning, unsuitability, improper margin practices, unauthorized trading, failure to supervise, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.